What #data #privacy Means for the Future of #blockchain
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Data Analytics and BlockchainData analytics and machine learning are hugely valuable, providing insights and spurring advancements in many industries including IoT, healthcare, and financial services.Today’s blockchain platforms cannot directly support applications that compute over sensitive data.Unfortunately, the data that powers these advancements is often highly sensitive. For example, medical research requires access to sensitive patient data. In many cases this data cannot be accessed or shared due to privacy concerns. This results in data silos in which data is not used for its full potential value.Blockchain can help solve this problem, though several challenges remain. For example, one would like to use smart contracts to allow researchers to run machine learning over (...)